An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
JERRY GARCIAAs long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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